Happy Lunar New Year everyone 🐲 🧧🧧🧧🎉

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    5 months ago

    Well that’s annoying. I woke up super early (for me anyways) to go to Echuca on the train for the day and 10 mins before we got to Bendigo they told us the Echuca has been cancelled and the train will terminate at Bendigo with a coach to Echuca

    I don’t really want to do the coach but they said it’s at least 20 minutes away anyway

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      I ended up coming back to Melbourne and just station hopping until 5ish. I’m about ready to pass out (yay 3 hours of sleep), but 15 individual train trips, 407 new photos/video and at least 400km traversed!

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    Six places on the list viewed (plus two not, but they’re out of my price range so they don’t count), four boxes and two pictures dropped off at the op shop and a quick Aldi run done.
    I think I’ve earned a prosecco.

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    Anyone here old enough to remember when Rage would debut a new “unplugged” show?.. I used to tape them, both on the VCR and cassette for my Walkman. Currently listening to STP Unplugged - I remember thinking Scott Weiland was so classy sipping that huge glass of red through the set, in hindsight it was probably like 3/4 of a bottle in that glass.

    Edit - thinking about it, I had a DiscMan at that point but no way to burn cds. Hence the Walkman - with the auto reverse magic.

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    The Fire Pig 🔥 🐽 has chosen to go into the city so I the Fire Snake 🔥🐍 and the Wood Rabbit 🌳🐰 will go and deposit some bottles 🍾 and do something with the rest of the sunny☀ day while the Water Snake 💦 🐍 runs around outside barking.

    I’m having so much fun with this. 🌳🐰 isn’t. He assures me he is indeed a 🦁 and he’s sticking to it.

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      According to the Vietnamese the year of the rabbit is actually the year of the cat. And a lion is really just a big cat, so I think the claim is justified.

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    Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

    Happy Lunar New Year!

  • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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    It was time to upgrade the Xbox One, so I took the Nintendo switches (which haven’t been used as much as we all thought they would be) plus games and traded them in for a new series X. Ended up costing me $126 with the traded stuff, so I’m pretty chuffed about that. Not as chuffed as the Elder will be on his birthday when he gets it! The switches were just not as enjoyable to use as the 3DS was.

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      I’m the opposite. I gave the kids a switch for Christmas, and ended up buying a second hand switch lite for myself. I am loving it.

      I have a Skyrim campaign in my pocket. Have to sit around for an hour while the kid has Tae Kwon Do? No biggie. It’s a wonder I don’t see lots of these things on the train. I would use it if I had a longer commute.

      The kids use theirs on the TV 90% of the time, but they have upgraded from an Xbox (original one) with wired controllers.

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      This just gave me the mini butt kick to get rid of my Switch! Also, was definitely not into it as much as I thought I would be considering I’ve owned a fair few Nintendo handhelds, I kinda blame game prices.

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    Resting with the cat. She loves being in bed all day. She’s the little spoon, being cuddled like a teddy bear. And when I rustle for a peppermint she’s instantly alert to get her own treat from a packet.

    We’re a pair of tired oldies who sometimes share a hot water bottle

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    I’m playing Mass Effect 2 and being evil. My god some of the lines are hilarious!!!

    I forced a shop assistant to give me a discount by standing outside the store and yelling about how they were discriminating against me because I was poor 🤣

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    It has been enlightening listening to a spine specialist , McGill. Really changed how I think about my back, the pain and what happened. There is no such thing as an achy back, there are injuries and aggravating weakness.

    seems I have stress fractures of one or two L vertebrates and a touch of a disc hernia on my left side. Ten hours a week of walking on hard footpaths, walking thru pain, with hard shoes will aggravate a weakness from prior injury or re-injure.

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      They seem to have been learning a lot about both the spine and pain management in recent years and a lot of the more recent information is quite different to the traditional advice. A lot of the pain seems to be caused by things like bracing in anticipation of pain, which means that learning to react differently can have major benefits. So it is not “all in your head” as it is real, physically based pain, but learning to think about the pain differently can change your physical responses and reduce the pain.

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    Watching some telly before I get a little rowdy tonight, and one of my favourite costuming tropes is when a character out of their depth goes to the tropics/a hot place (it doesnt matter what they’re there for) they must have a huge hiking pack paired with some sort of plaid shirt and singlet, for men you can throw in a henley, for women it must be a skin tight spaghetti strap singlet.

    Bonus points for inappropriate footwear, khaki cargo shorts (cargo booty shorts of the ladies), some sort of head wrap, they gain a collection of “handcrafted” bracelets during their tropical/hot place adventure.

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    I’ve been avoiding the news but saw something awful just now. What’s going on in Gaza is sickening. This shit has to be war crimes.

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    Child riding around at night in dark clothes with no lights on the wrong side of the road. I ask myself, where are the parents?

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    I seem to have misplaced my debit card. Searched high and low and can’t find it at the place I’m housesitting, my own place, or the route I walked to the shops earlier today (the endpoint at which I realised I was sans card). Nobody’s used it in the past 6 hours either.

    Found out I could put a temporary lock on the card and I’ll try looking again tomorrow. I really don’t want to get a card replacement, so many things I’ll need to change 🫤

    Normally I would feel panicked or frustrated but I still feel numb (not necessarily comfortably).

    I do have a mysterious craving for salmon and pizza that’s come out of nowhere though. None of the pizza places here in Preston seem to do in house delivery :( not having a car sucks like that. Old Kodak it is. And just a marinara pizza with garlic bread.

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      Check your wallet - it might have been put into a slot that’s already occupied by another card, only behind it not in front. I’ve done this more times than I can count.

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        It’s definitely not in my wallet because the last place it was at was in a slot on my phone’s flip cover. Stupid, stupid place to put it because it has fallen out from there before…

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        I loooove their pizzas and would’ve gone for that but no delivery sadly. Not that I could see on their website. True to their name